Limelight Networks today announced that it is the Content Delivery Network for Mydeo, the UK-based video streaming service that enables consumers to share home movies with family and friends via the Internet. Mydeo is leveraging Limelight's network to power worldwide delivery of clips and movies to viewers, giving home video makers using Mydeo's innovative service the high-performance and reliability of the world's leading content delivery network for digital media.
"The Limelight CDN provides world-class streaming performance, and our partnership with them will enable us to offer unmatched safe streaming solutions to home movie makers through our convenient and affordable flat-rate service," said Cary Marsh, Managing Director of Mydeo. "Streaming is the ideal mode for sharing personal and family content and Limelight has an outstanding track record in the industry for highly reliable delivery of streaming content," she said.
"Mydeo's decision to go with Limelight marks the latest of our successes in the European market," said George Meek, Director of European Business Development, Limelight Networks. "Our partnership leverages Limelight's global network to give Mydeo's customers the same high performance streaming video that major media companies provide their high-end corporate customers. As a result, the casual home video maker can now enjoy the quality and reliability of a professional-class streaming video platform, something they would never have been able to purchase as an individual."
Mydeo's Marsh noted that convenience, ease of use, and "safe-sharing" are hallmarks of the Mydeo streaming video service. "Viewers need only to click on a link for immediate access to video content without having to wait for a download. Since the link is available only to intended viewers, Mydeo users can confidently share their videos of their children and other family members having fun on vacations or at important family events such as weddings," she said. "Since users can choose a pricing package based on the number of times a video is viewed, we are making 'web video' highly affordable as well."
About Mydeo
Founded in 2004 by Cary Marsh and Iain Millar, Mydeo won the Research & Development Grant for Technical Innovation from the UK Department of Trade and Industry. Mydeo provides quality global streaming video hosting for home and business users and has recently been voted 'A Start Up to Watch for 2006' by real Business Magazine. The site provides simple online tools that help users upload, pay for, and distribute videos to friends, family, customers and prospects, as well as live statistics to track how popular videos have been. In August 2005, Mydeo announced it had integrated its service into Microsoft's popular home video editing package Windows Movie Maker 2, bringing their high quality streaming service to millions of Windows XP users around the world. For further information please visit mydeo.com.
About Limelight Networks
Privately held Limelight Networks is the leading content delivery network for Internet distribution of video, music, games, and downloads. Limelight's advanced content delivery network provides the world's top media companies high-performance delivery of media and software via the Internet, making Limelight Networks the content delivery network of choice for more than 400 world-class customers including Akimbo, ABC Radio Networks, Belo Interactive, "BuyMusic" @ Buy.com, DreamWorks, LLC, IFILM, Live365, Marimba, MSNBC.com, NC Interactive, NPR, Real Networks Rhapsody, Radio Free Virgin, Valve Software, and Xbox Live. For more information, visit: http://www.llnw.com